Question
The speaker of this poem decries the “savage race” that “hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem whose speaker laments “How dull it is to pause / to make an end.” This poem’s second stanza focuses on the speaker’s love for his “most blameless” son to whom he leaves “the sceptre and the isle.”
ANSWER: “Ulysses”
[10e] “Ulysses” is a poem by this English poet who also wrote “Crossing the Bar” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson [or Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson]
[10m] Odysseus’s possible disappointment with his return to his homeland is also chronicled in this author’s 1911 poem “Ithaka.” This author also wrote “Waiting for the Barbarians.”
ANSWER: Constantine Cavafy [or C. P. Cavafy or Co Constantine P. Cavafy; or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis]
<Zac Bennett, Literature - British - Poetry> ~22917~ <Editor: Jim Fan>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 18.89 | 100% | 53% | 36% |